CVE-2023-32668 Affecting texlive-bin package, versions <2020.20200327.54578-7+deb11u2
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- published 12 May 2023
- disclosed 11 May 2023
Introduced: 11 May 2023
CVE-2023-32668 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11 texlive-bin to version 2020.20200327.54578-7+deb11u2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream texlive-bin package and not the texlive-bin package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.
LuaTeX before 1.17.0 allows a document (compiled with the default settings) to make arbitrary network requests. This occurs because full access to the socket library is permitted by default, as stated in the documentation. This also affects TeX Live before 2023 r66984 and MiKTeX before 23.5.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-32668
- https://gitlab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/texlive/luatex/-/blob/b266ef076c96b382cd23a4c93204e247bb98626a/source/texk/web2c/luatexdir/ChangeLog#L1-L3
- https://gitlab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/texlive/luatex/-/tags/1.17.0
- https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2023-May/049188.html
- https://tug.org/~mseven/luatex.html#luasocket